RE: [cobalt-users] mrtg problem - no out traffic

["Tim Lawson" <timl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John wrote,

>I have upgrade SNMP to latest version as suggested in another 
>post here, but still no luck. My server is a RaQ3 - any 
>suggestions as how i could get mrtg to display the out traffic 
>would be most welcome

I'm no expert but I learnt from this list a couple of things.

Try this command in telnet...
ifconfig -a

Will tell you about the network card(s) in your machine.
I would look for the 'eth0' section of the information and see if you
get an RX value and a TX value I believe this is the receive and
Transmit amounts.

And this command...
snmpwalk www.yourdomain.com public | mail -s "`date +"%D %T"`" root

Section 1 (Before the '|')
This will list all snmp details about your system, assuming the
community is on default of 'public'
(Make sure you put your own domain name instead) 

Section 2 (After the '|')
Sends the above output as an email to root user with date and time in
the subject header.
(You can change where the email is sent if you swap 'root' with your own
username)

The information from both commands helped me determine what traffic I
can monitor using MRTG

HTH

Tim Lawson